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that the lower end cleared the bucket, and the latter 

 could be hoisted or lowered past it. The concrete- 

 mixer and tower were placed in the most central posi- 

 tion available so as to minimize the wheeling-distance. 

 Adjacent to it there was a hod elevator on which tiles 

 and other material were carried. The hoist delivered 

 the concrete to an elevated platform or chute, closed 

 with a gate at the lower end, which was raised to dis- 

 charge the concrete into the wheelbarrows below." 



The average rate of building on this hotel was one 

 story to every six days, but there were both day and 

 night shifts of men, so that the full twenty-four hours 

 of each day were utilized. Despite this the operations 

 were so relatively noiseless that there was little cause 

 for complaint by people living in the vicinity. The 

 suppression of sounds is an incidental but pleasing 

 feature of this kind of construction. 



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